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Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679 • SECTION 1136

Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2 — Section 1136

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freenels and readinef(s of Chritft, to receive every one who traly be- \ power of it ſelf, (ſuch 1s the darkneſs of the — \ mnleſs ir be *OUt jt b | F ever: him, and to preſerve him to Eternzl Life and Salvatio:. {tinacy of the Will, the depravation gg ot is able of if **onuly k Vino whey ave that are given t Chriſt, and thar will, or ſhall believe| illuminated and drawn by the Spirit of God: Goodneſs and Excel- _ Y have

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TREESSTTYY © ab in I/arah 54+ 13s or in the Book of the Prophets ; for to" te words be fo be tound oniy In {/.:7,1, yer words of the fame | iifo ro be found in Fer: miah, Exiue!, Fogel, and Micah. All they whom rhe Lord bath choten, ſtall be taught of God Xx; T' =retore ( ſuith he } {11d I ro YOu, Every man that learned of tive "WM F:ther, cometh unto me... Oar Saviour proveth the Doctrine which he Ha had delivered tO them, from the Prophets ; not becauſe thetr Antho rity Was greater than his, or in any degree equal with his; bur be- ze the Prophers and rheir Wriciags were in greater Authority and Repuration with them. 45 * Not that any man hath ſeen the Father y, ine he which is of God z, he hath ſeen the Fa- ther 4. '” , None muſt dream that the Father ſhould viſibly appear in the | World toteach men : For the Ellence of God is invitible ; none "bart ſeen it at any time 7, faving he alone who is the only begorten *." Son of the Farher 4. He hath ſeen the Eiflence of the Father, he

y 5 knowerh his Will and molt fecrer Counſels. 47 Verily, verily, I fay unto you, He that believeth on me, hath everlaſting life.

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49 * Your fathers did eat Manna in the wildernels,

F and are dead 6.

b Your Fathers by nature, or in reſpect of unbelief, did eat Mannain the Wilderneſs, and they are Narurally dead ; { Manna would not always preſerve their Natural Life ) and thoſe of them who were unbelievers are alſo dead Erernally; their eating of Manna, which was a Type of me, withour believing in me, would nor ſave thems

50 * This 1s the bread which cometh down from

heaven, that a man may eat thereot and not die c.

c But I am that Bread of Life, who came our of rhe higheſt Hea- rens, from the Boſome of my Father, that Bread, which a man eateth thereof, -he ſhall never die eternally: Eating Chriſt in this Text Ggnitieth no more than believing in him, ſo often before men- tioned under the Notion of coming to him, believing in him. &c. And believing is fitly expreſſed by this Notion of Eatz:ng ; becauſe as eat- ing isthe application of Meat to our Stomachs for the ſuſtenance of our Bodily Life 5 fo believing is the application of Chrilt ro the Soul, for the beginning and increaſe of Spiritual T.ife, and ar lat obtaining Lite Erernal.

3 $51 lam the living bread, * which came down from heavend, If any man eat of this bread, he ſhall live

for evere: And * che bread that I will give, is my

fleſh, which I will give for the lite of the world f.

d Seethe Notes on ver, 33, & 35+ Our Saviour ſooften inculca- | ting this,and what follows, lets us ſee both how neceflary this is to be "SY known, and alſo how diticult the work of believing is e. Thoſe words, be ſhall live for ever, expoand thoſe that went before in the 50. Verſe, that a man might eat thereof and not die f. His ſaying, \ Lukth that the Bread which he giverh is his Fleſi7, ex pounds what he ſaid before, 247. how he 1s the Bread of Life, 2:7. by giving his Fleſh,

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